Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:58:58 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6 |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > The "proper" solution is to make the keyboard+(optionally)PS/2 driver > > modular :) > > Or to have some way of forcing the driver to check for a mouse after > boot time - like you can tell SCSI controllers to check for new devices.
Might be nice.
> Or even better, to have the driver automatically notice when a mouse is > plugged in, without intervention from the user at all. P'raps it should > scan for a mouse whenever /dev/psaux is opened when a mouse isn't > currently thought to be attached?
A lot of PCs lock hard when you attach a PS/2 mouse while running. (I'm pretty sure this is a hardware thing, rather than a driver issue, although I don't remember being foolish enough to try it on a running Linux box :)
Matthew.
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